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The top writing on contemporary issues in design--in one volume
* Big names: Milton Glaser, Maud Lavin, Ellen Lupton, more
* Includes essays from blogs and Internet journals
* A must-have for students, pros, anyone interested in pop culture
This final installment in an acclaimed series offers astute--and controversial--discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. The essays here takes stock of the graphic design writing published in professional and general-interest design magazines, as well as in blogs and Internet journals. Contributors include Milton Glaser, Maud Lavin, Ellen Lupton, Victor Margolin, Mr. Keedy, David Jury, Alice Twemlow, Jessica Helfand, Michael Dooley, Nick Curry, Emily King, and more. These prominent designers look at design as pop culture, design as art, politics, aesthetics, social responsibility, typography, the future of design--a wide-ranging and thought-provoking mix of ideas and information. Students, beginning graphic designers, and even veterans seeking fresh perspective will savor this collection. Last in the series that helped launch the design-criticism movement--and that pioneered anthologizing important graphic-design criticism--this volume will be the most provocative of all.
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The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor, Kathy McCoy, Lorraine Wild, Veronique Vienne, Jessica Helfand, and others discuss such important contemporary themes as the rise and fall of the dot.coms and its influence on salary expectations, the ongoing controversy over the First Things First Manifesto, the call for greater responsibility in the design profession, and the antibranding protests that ignited demonstrations during recent World Trade Organization meetings.
From current events to design principles, and aesthetics to ethics, graphic designers everywhere will savor this anthology of fresh perspective.
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Critical writings on graphic design with essays by some of the leaders in the design industry.
Customer Reviews:
Must Own Design Book.......2003-06-02
If you're a designer or visual communicator, this book is a must have for research, history, and critical insight. Throughful, provocative, and daring, Looking Closer gauges the role of design across social and cultural divides. Its articles are collected from magazines such as Graphis, Eye, Communication Arts, and the AIGA Journal. Furthermore, the book is cheaper than getting a subscription to those magazines!
A Bible for Graphic Design Students World Wide!.......2000-08-01
A collection of essays from various magazines, designers and typographers provides the student with an unmissable reference guide. Excellent as it is not only an enjoyable, interesting read, but also fantastic for essay writing as it condenses a library of books into one small paperback. No student should be without this book!
Everyone can find something interesting in this book.......2000-04-16
This is the first volume in a collection of books on design criticism. The articles are pulled from sources like the Journal of the AIGA, Print, and EYE magazine. The topics range the "ugly aesthetic" to the state of design education. The articles are all decent none really stick out as undeserving of a place in this collection. Paul (IBM logo) Rand Contributes an interesting essay on what purpose logos really serve and Paula Scher talks about the way she runs her classes at SVA. The essays all provide some food for thought(even it the thought is " I'd like to smack this guy.")Buy it and keep it with you It's a good thing to have around while your waiting for a bus, a haircut, or a class to begin.
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Title: Looking Closer 4: Critical Writings on Graphic Design.(Book Reviews)
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A good start for beginners.......1998-01-20
Primarily a picture book it does how ever introduce the discipline of k.s quite well. Often seen as mere entertainment by the general public this book with the inclusion of subversive works such as 'cow zen' does alert the novice reader to the power that k.s. can harness (no pun intended). My major gripe would be lack of coverage of artists from the southern hemisphere
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Three short comic stories! Continued from Zzim! 2, "When the Devil and Angel Met" finds a pair of supernatural youngsters teaching each other how to be more like the other one. In "The Princess is Lonely," the most popular girl in school is used to being worshipped by every guy in class. But what does she do when she likes the one guy that totally ignores her? Finally, "Wanna Spend the Night?" has the class clown and the class nerd joining forces to help each other be smarter and more popular.
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Finally! A step-by-step guide to the keys that unlock the doors to Hollywood.
Opening the Doors to Hollywood has all the information you'll ever need in order to tap into the $500 million spent yearly in Hollywood on acquiring and developing projects.
Discover how to:
Find a story
Rewrite it
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Complete with a reference section that includes guilds/unions, libraries, sample contracts, seminars and workshops, trade publications, and writers' organizations,
Opening the Doors to Hollywood is invaluable to any writer.
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A practical guide to the Hollywood system.......2005-07-20
"Opening the doors to Hollywood" gives a great overview of the Hollywood system for any writer wanting to break in to the business.
It has a great "key" system which highlights useful websites and essential advice. It gives a good insight into the functioning of the major studios, independent production companies and television networks.
Overall, it's a very practical text which demystifies the Hollywood system and provides paths for new writers wanting to break in. "Opening the doors to Hollywood" is a useful and inspiring text.
Like Having a Friend in the Business........2000-05-28
The authors give a 'nuts and bolts' overview of the entertainment business, and generally what a novice can expect once they have taken that first step into the glittering city called Hollywood. The sage advice given is ample to give a newcomer enough information to lead to the proper Hollywood doors, rather than down blind alleys. The authors give great advice, the dreamer has to do the work. I would highly recommend.
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The first of two volumes of the most requested pieces for weddings, church services, or meditative settings, these compositions provide excellent intermediate literature for study in private lessons. Each of these classical masterpieces is excellent for development of tone and vibrato. All works are arranged for flute (or violin) with piano and organ accompaniment. A convenient pull-out part is included for the soloist. The included CD contains both organ and piano accompaniments for all pieces in the book. Introductions have been added where necessary to establish tempo and allow the soloist to enter with the recorded accompaniment at the proper time.
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Lots of fun.......2007-01-29
I have been looking for this type of music and I am enjoying practicing so much that I have to make an effort to stop playing and get other things done!
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Top-quality arrangements of contemporary favorites, standard hymns, and Gospel songs for the violin or flute soloist.
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The Way of the Moving Horse.
The second volume of the Learn to Play Go series. Fundamentals of good play. Teaches you how to choose the right moves according to the Korean school's strength vs. speed model. Includes a Go on the Internet section that helps you get on-line quickly, giving you access to a wealth of information, and the world's largest Go club, the Internet Go Server.
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Go!!.......2007-01-05
I purchased this for my nephew who has developed a passion for Go. I gave it to him but he issued a challenge at the board. Woefully out of practice, I read the book. Both he and I agree, the book is terrific. It is clear and concise. We both will be moving the next volumes.
Excellent introduction.......2006-11-25
Being new to playing Go, I found this book to be extremely helpful. It's simple but effective explanation of the three core phases of the game acts as a fantastic introduction to some of the most essential elements of play. A lot of concepts that were a bit hazy with me came into concrete solidity after reading through this book. I've read a lot of free instructional material on the internet, but Kim's coverage of the same material in this book is far more clear than any of those free sources.
Excellente présentation.......2005-10-24
Ce livre s'adresse aux débutants (genre 20 kyu) qui souhaitent améliorer leur technique de jeu. Il est très bien présenté et agréable à lire. Un avantage très pratique: la plupart des séquences de coups présentées sont courtes et peuvent être étudiées sans Go-Ban. Je vais acheter les volumes suivants en espérant qu'ils sont de même qualité.
This is the way to Go.......2005-01-17
Suppose you wanted to learn to play chess or bridge. Well, you would ask people to tell you the rules. And you would improve just by trial and error. But you might also need something you could use for a textbook or reference that would guide you through the steps to become more than a beginner. That's true in Go as well.
One problem with Go is that it is often hard for a beginner to have any idea what the score is. In bridge, you know the score. In chess, you can see if you are ahead in material. In Go, it is tougher to see how you are doing. It makes it that much more confusing for an untrained beginner.
And that is where we come to books on Go for the beginner. There are a variety of introductory books, such as the ones by Cho Chikun, or Kaoru Iwamoto, or Richard Bozulich, or Peter Shotwell (not to mention older ones such as those by Otto Korscheldt, or Edward Lasker, or Kaku Takagawa, or Arthur Smith). Some are by famous Go champions, some are not. But one can read any of these books carefully, play a few games, and still be a very weak player.
For a set of books that can take one from a complete beginner, teach one the rules, and get one to single-digit kyu strength (or close to it), I like Janice Kim's 5-volume set the best. And this is the second volume in it (second edition, 1998).
I think these books teach the fundamentals better than the other books I mentioned. In this book, one learns about making bases, running with attacked stones (that moving horse!), invading and reducing territory, and a little about attacking and defending. I liked the example of a ko fight where one side runs out of ko threats but still comes out ahead (although losing the ko) because the winning ko threat was to try to escape from a ladder (adding stones to the ladder was worth as much as the ko). And I liked the emphasis on preventing the "tiger's mouth" formation as a fundamental concept of contact fighting.
This book is really easy to read: one does not even need a Go board to understand it. And I thought it was a good idea for Kim to refer to White (generally the stronger player) as "she," and Black as "he."
The first book in this series is for total beginners, and it teaches the rules of the game. That material can be absorbed very quickly. After that, this book ought to be easily readable for anyone who is interested in the game.
Excellent second book of go.......2003-02-20
This was the second book I purchased for learning go (the first was Charles Matthew's 'Teach Yourself Go'). For the beginner, Go can be somewhat frustrating to get into. There is a plethora of books that will teach you the basic rules, but these can also be learned from a variety of web sites.
After these, the average beginner knows the rules, but not how to actually play. An opponant will play a stone right next to one of theirs, and they don't know how to respond... do I play above it? or on the other side? do I ignore it and play another hoshi (star point)?
This book teaches the reader about making jumps (how to expand on territory you're claiming or keep from being captured), base extensions (in order to stake out territory), and the basics of ko fights and contact fighting (what happens when stones are played right next to each other). If you've done a bit of playing and problem solving online, I would recommend picking up the next book in this series at the same time. As soon as you finish this book, you'll begin to see more patterns in games and understand that there is more you should be seeing behind the moves. As a result, you will probably want to study the game more, and the next book is really still a mid-level book.
My only complaint about the book would have to be just that. The niche it fills, for the reader who has learned the rules but isn't ready for serious study of go patterns yet, isn't filled unless you have both the second and third book in this series. These probably should have been published as one larger book. That notwithstanding, it's an excellent second (and third) book of Go.
As a side note, while the fourth book in this series is quite interesting, it is not as much of a prerequisite for studying other books, such as the Elementary Go Series, as book II and III.
Customer Reviews:
Great pilot, wonderful book........1998-07-17
What can I say? it was great.
It did not tell me what I wanted to know........1998-07-15
The summaries in the book were way too short and wanted to kill them. the index in the back is too brief and does not contain every thing I wanted to know
A nice start for X-philes.......1998-01-08
I didn't knew anything about X-files characters and stories before reading this book. It is a great way to understand the stories behind the stories (why they did that story ? Why this character reappeared ?). However, if you are an experienced x-files' viewer you will not find a good reference about episodes, characters, writters, etc. Anyway, I enjoy its reading and it is a good reference for new or intermediate x-philes.
Great for behind-the-scenes info!.......1997-02-18
This book is excellent for people who want to learn more about what happens behind the scenes on THE X-FILES. It also contains summaries for every episode in the first three seasons
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